100 Year Zip Through Hoodie

Name: Equator T Shirt. Coral Pink edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: TPS063PNKXSM
Price: 125.00 CHF
Availability: InStock

Tough enough to withstand the next century. Soft enough to spend the rest of your life in.

CHF 695

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Fire resistant, water repellent and windproof
Embedded with an abrasion resistant polymer coating
Fleece-lined underside

Our 100 Year Hoodies have always been tough. But our new zip through edition is the softest and lightest version we’ve ever made. It’s super stretchy, lined with ultrasoft breathable fleece, and has 4 huge zipped front pockets for stashing your gear. But it’s also windproof, abrasion resistant, water repellent, fire resistant, and can withstand temperatures 4x hotter than the sun. So you can now wear it anywhere, and all year round.

The hoodie combines 4 different layers of technology. The inside of the hoodie is made from an incredibly dense fleece that’s 4x more windproof than a regular fleece, while the outside of the fabric is a blend of modacrylic and aramid fibres for fire resistance. On top of that there are two coatings. One is a fluorocarbon-free treatment that helps it shed rain and snow. The other fuses high strength polymers directly into the fibres to make the hoodie highly abrasion resistant.

Equator T Shirt

Weighing just 130 grams it’s engineered to keep you cool in the heat.

CHF 125

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Technical Details

Material made in Italy: 100% mercerised Pima cotton

Highly breathable

Fast drying

Material weighs 140g/m2

T shirt weighs 130 grams

Machine wash 30°C

Constructed in Portugal

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Made with silk-like Pima cotton

While cotton has been cultivated for over 5,000 years, not all cottons are equal. Today upland cotton makes up about 90% of global cotton production, and it’s used for most cotton t shirts. Pima cotton is rarer and only makes up a fraction of all the cotton produced worldwide – under 5%. But it's not only softer and lighter than regular cotton, it’s also more resistant to pilling, fraying and tearing.

Pima cotton is super soft and strong

The fine strands that make up a raw piece of cotton are called staples, and the longer these strands are, the stronger and silkier the cotton will be. Pima cotton is one of the few types of cotton which has extra long staples. On a practical level it means there are fewer edges when the fibres are knitted into fabric, because there are fewer strands. And this is what produces a material that’s really soft and really strong at the same time.

The cotton is mercerised to keep you cool

In hot and humid conditions, the last thing you want is for your clothes to cling to you and stick to your skin, so the Equator T Shirt goes through a process called mercerisation. Designed to make the t shirt feel even smoother and silkier, it also helps it hold its shape and structure in the heat. So instead of sticking to you, it’s designed to keep a gap between your skin and the material, so that air can still move between your body and the t shirt to help cool you down.

It’s ultralight and fast drying from rain and humidity

Humidity and rainstorms are going to soak you one way or another at the equator, so the key is about drying really fast, rather than trying to avoid getting wet. The t shirt is ultra lightweight at 130 grams, so it dries quickly. It means the shirt is at home in a rainforest as it is in the city.